© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-helencbradshaw Recent reviews written by member helencbradshaw en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_425023147652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - The Hotel Russell, situated along one side of Russell Square in the Bloomsbury area of the city was to be my home for my recent short break in the capital. Being in the hotel industry myself, I don't like to pay a fortune for hotels and I booked the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425023147652 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:04:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425023147652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405097778820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - “Out of the Dark” is an auto-biographical account of abuse by Linda Caine and co written by her psychotherapist and now friend Robin Royston. On the face of it, Linda Caine appears to have an idyllic lifestyle and have plenty of blessings that many... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405097778820 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:57:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405097778820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405097647748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - “The Girl in the Picture” is the story behind the subject of one of the Vietnam War’s most shocking images; that of nine year old Kim Phuc, who was badly burned, and was captured on film running naked from her village back on 8 June 1972. the picture... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405097647748 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:55:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405097647748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405097451140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Astonishing Splashes of Colour is the first novel by Clare Morrall and was shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize 2003. The book itself is the first published book by its author, and I think it was the Astonishing Splashes of Colour that make up its cover... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405097451140 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:51:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405097451140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405097057924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - The Good Women of China is author Xinran Xue’s first book and it is an eye opening look at the role of women in a relatively recent China. The author herself now lives in London and has done for the last 7 years; having spent the eight years previous to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405097057924 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:49:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405097057924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405096861316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - “I am Sam” is the moving story of a Father and the love for his daughter, and the challenges that he has in demonstrating his ability to be a ‘proper’ father to her, despite his own limitations. Sam, played by Sean Penn, is a mentally retarded father... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405096861316 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:46:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405096861316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405096730244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Amazon.co.uk has been around in the UK since 1998, (hard to believe it is only 7 years!!) and is one of the world's biggest online stores. In my regular dealings with them, Amazon are a company which consistently offers good customer service and good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405096730244 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:38:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405096730244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405096533636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - "Unforgettable Places to see before you die" is of course a book of dreams for many an armchair traveller. But most of us like to pick up a book like this, I am guessing, and flick through to see just how many of the places contained within that we have... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405096533636 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:36:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405096533636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405096468100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - In America, released in 2002, tells the story of a young Irish family trying to make a new life for themselves in Manhattan, NY in the early 1980's. We begin to learn a little of this families past within the first scene; narrated partly by Christie... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405096468100 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:33:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405096468100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405096337028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - "Sold Out: the true cost of Supermarket Shopping" by William Young is another title in what seems a plethora of books attacking our food industry, including titles attacking Wal-Mart, the Fast Food Industry, and the Supermarket Industries in general. The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405096337028 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:30:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405096337028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405096205956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Good Homes magazine, published by the BBC states it is Britain's fastest-growing homes magazine. Given it is only on issue number 87, and therefore around seven years old, and given the huge uprising in home shows on all channels on TV, this is a claim... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405096205956 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:26:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405096205956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405095288452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Hotel Comedie is a three star property in Geneve's City Centre, on the busy Rue de Carouge. It was business, rather than pleasure that took me there for my recent one month stay. The actual purpose of my trip was also hotel related, in that I was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405095288452 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:15:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405095288452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405094829700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Bury might not be the top of everyone&#146s destination list, although it is not a million miles from the more popular city centre of Manchester (and linked to the city via the metrolink network). However being from Lancashire originally, I have just... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405094829700 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:07:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405094829700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_367384301188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Prague has been on my list of “Places to see before I Die” for years and years. I am not sure why I haven’t actually made it there until now – but one reason would be that living in Scotland for the last 13 years, direct flights can be a challenge, and I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~367384301188 Sat, 26 May 2007 18:22:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_367384301188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338660068996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - I wandered into the bookshop in the delightful village of Long Melford some times ago now, and my eyes were immediately drawn to the cover of the book Hotel Babylon. While it was rare to see this book 18 months ago, it eventually did make it to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338660068996 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:55:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338660068996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338659610244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Bitter Fruit, by Achmat Dangor is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004. Achmat Dangor was born in South Africa in 1948 at the beginning of white apartheid rule, and being of African, Asian and Dutch ancestry, was considered ‘coloured’ and therefore... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338659610244 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:49:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338659610244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338659413636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - “When Broken Glass Floats” by Chanrithy Him is an autobiographical account of growing up in Cambodia in the Khmer Rouge and for obvious reasons, contains many similarities to the book “First they Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338659413636 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:46:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338659413636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338659020420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - NLP in 21 Days, by Harry Alder and Beryl Heather is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of Neuro Linguistic Programming covering the international syllabus for practitioner training. I have owned this book for a little while; having had an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338659020420 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:43:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338659020420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338658758276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - The novel Deafening is in fact the first novel by author Frances Itani, although she has written short story and poetry collections. This book was only released in the UK in 2004, and I was recently drawn to it in an airport bookshop by both its cover,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338658758276 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:41:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338658758276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338657250948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - There were many highlights of my recent California tour, but I think I am like many people in that these tall trees have a particular fascination. The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias is towards the South entry to Yosemite National Park (highway 41) and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338657250948 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:31:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338657250948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338656988804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - “From the Land of Green Ghosts, by Pascal Khoo Thwe, is a moving and factual biography of the author's transition from a member of a remote Burmese Village Tribe to an English Student at Cambridge University UK. The author was born in Burma in 1967... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338656988804 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:29:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338656988804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338656464516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - There is no better feeling sometimes, than sitting in a restaurant or bar, and overlook one of the world’s great oceans. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of miles between where you are sitting and that next piece of land. The Lido Restaurant in Bermuda... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338656464516 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:25:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338656464516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338655678084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - The film Vera Drake is set in a post war 1950s London. The Drake family themselves are just a normal working class family, living in what amounts to a few rooms in a housing block, and indeed with very few luxuries of living a mere 50 years later. Mr... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338655678084 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:18:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338655678084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338654891652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - Launched only around ten years ago, Ebay probably needs no introduction to most people as it has quickly grown to become the busiest online auction house on the planet. Ebay is not an auction house in the normal sense however, but merely a venue where... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338654891652 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338654891652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_300241686148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author helencbradshaw - One of the most important tasks for me, after booking a holiday, is to acquire a guidebook or two. Very often I do not read these until departure, as I do not like to over plan my vacation. For several years now, I have stuck with the same publisher of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~300241686148 Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:58:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_300241686148?linkin_id=8003929